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		<title>The Break-Up Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a self-mutilator. I used to use the term &#8220;recovering self-mutilator&#8221; a lot, but it&#8217;s not the mutilation I need to recover from. I can attest that I am currently not a danger to myself or others; this is simply expression. In treatment centers for that sort of thing, a tool they often use is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1794282&amp;post=187&amp;subd=alexandracoffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Four-Year Gift.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent this weekend with forty best friends. It&#8217;s so refreshing to find myself in a place where I belong, where nothing I say and no mistake I&#8217;ve made is too far. There is nothing you can do to make these people think the sun doesn&#8217;t shine out your ass, and even if they don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1794282&amp;post=183&amp;subd=alexandracoffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your mother is a whore. I saw her last night with that bartender/policeman/guitar player/lawyer/truck driver/Vietnam vet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1794282&amp;post=179&amp;subd=alexandracoffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short story I had to write for a class. I think I like how it turned out. She looked up from her book and stared at him briefly. She only noticed him because of the odor of unwashed clothes and unclean body caught on the breeze. He was rummaging through the ashtray in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1794282&amp;post=175&amp;subd=alexandracoffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Scribe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best eloquence comes not from the writer’s pen, but the thoughts she keeps for herself.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1794282&amp;post=171&amp;subd=alexandracoffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oxy-moron&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I kind of like this one. It&#8217;s really personal. It has a tone of finality, the end of a relationship that I never really wanted to end. This poem really encapsulates how badly I wanted to be over him. In a way, it gave me the boost I needed to be free. You aren’t worth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1794282&amp;post=169&amp;subd=alexandracoffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conniption</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Screaming, sobbing, hiccupping through gritted teeth and seeing double through tear-streaked eyes. Fists pounding on braided carpet, rugburn stings the toes. Some kind of immature incoherence, in tongues no one would care to understand. Your eyes sting no one, your hands thump nothing, your screams pierce no ears. Dear child, can’t you see? Your tantrums [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1794282&amp;post=167&amp;subd=alexandracoffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gentleman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the poems that didn&#8217;t make the cut to get published. Still, it has a lot of personal meaning. Whiff of sticky sickly-sweet mingling with tobacco musk. Your trusting eyes, your boyish grin. Trilling, high giggle escaping through your gritted teeth. Your reddened eyes, your sallow skin. Handscrawled notes, so childish, Don’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1794282&amp;post=164&amp;subd=alexandracoffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>01011000</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This poem was my primary piece published in Vol. 14 of The Centinel, the Saugus High School Literary Magazine.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1794282&amp;post=162&amp;subd=alexandracoffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Show You&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was published in "The Centinel," Vol. 14, published by the Saugus High School publication team.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1794282&amp;post=160&amp;subd=alexandracoffin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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